Thanks for that. Must indeed be a C > VBA problem and will sort this out.
RBS
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Rowan Worth <rowanw at dugeo.com> wrote:
> Suspect you are running into more VBA<->C issues. The db path, journal path
> and wal path are stored sequentially in memory, so if you were to skip the
> NUL terminators you'd see all three paths.
>
> But I'm not exactly sure how that might happen without resulting in a
> segfault, so I could be missing something.
>
> -Rowan
>
> On 9 October 2015 at 16:18, Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > All working fine now, but noticed that for the attached database I get
> not
> > just the file path of the attached database, but also the journal
> > file path and wal file path:
> >
> > C:\Test\NewDB2.db3C:\Test\NewDB2.db3-journalC:\Test\NewDB2.db3-wal
> >
> > There is actually no journal file or wal file that I can see in that
> > folder.
> >
> > For main I only get the file path of that main database.
> >
> > Is this behaviour as expected?
> > Is it documented somewhere?
> >
> >
> > RBS
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Bart Smissaert <bart.smissaert at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Ignore this as I know what the problem was.
> > > I was passing a pointer to the Unicode string, but should be pointer to
> > > 8bit ASCII string.
> > >
> > > RBS
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Bart Smissaert <
> bart.smissaert at gmail.com
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> OK, thanks, at least I know that the function works fine then in
> > >> sqlite3.dll.
> > >> Problem must be on my side then.
> > >>
> > >> This is the code in the Std_Call dll:
> > >>
> > >> SQLITE3_STDCALL_API const char * __stdcall
> > sqlite3_stdcall_db_filename(sqlite3
> > >> *pDb, const char *zDbName)
> > >> {
> > >> return sqlite3_db_filename(pDb, zDbName);
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> And this is the Declare in VBA:
> > >>
> > >> Public Declare Function sqlite3_stdcall_db_filename Lib
> > "SQLite3_StdCall"
> > >> Alias "_sqlite3_stdcall_db_filename at 8" (ByVal hDBHandle As Long,
> ByVal
> > >> lPtrAttachedDBName As Long) As Long
> > >>
> > >> Anything wrong with either of these?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> RBS
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Dan Kennedy <danielk1977 at gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On 10/08/2015 03:51 AM, Bart Smissaert wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> As I understand it this should produce a filepointer to the filepath
> > of
> > >>>> the
> > >>>> attached database, given the database handle of file the other
> > database
> > >>>> was
> > >>>> attached to and the database name of the attached database. I
> checked
> > >>>> all
> > >>>> the return values and also did a select involving tables in both
> > >>>> databases and all goes fine, so I can be sure that the other
> database
> > is
> > >>>> attached OK.
> > >>>> All I get from sqlite3_db_filename is zero, so no valid file
> pointer.
> > No
> > >>>> error messages though.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I am accessing sqlite3.dll (Windows 7) via a std_call dll as I am
> > >>>> working
> > >>>> in VBA here.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Any suggestions what could be the problem?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I am running 3.8.11.1
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> The program below works here.
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm seeing full paths for databases "main" and "aux", and a
> zero-length
> > >>> nul-terminated string for "next" (the in-memory database).
> > >>>
> > >>> Dan
> > >>>
> > >>> -----------------------------------------------------
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> #include <sqlite3.h>
> > >>> #include <stdio.h>
> > >>> #include <stdlib.h>
> > >>>
> > >>> int main(int argc, char **argv){
> > >>> int rc;
> > >>> sqlite3 *db;
> > >>>
> > >>> rc = sqlite3_open("test.db", &db);
> > >>> if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){
> > >>> fprintf(stderr, "sqlite3_open: %s\n", sqlite3_errmsg(db));
> > >>> exit(1);
> > >>> }
> > >>>
> > >>> rc = sqlite3_exec(db, "ATTACH 'other.db' AS 'aux'", 0, 0, 0);
> > >>> if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){
> > >>> fprintf(stderr, "sqlite3_exec: %s\n", sqlite3_errmsg(db));
> > >>> exit(1);
> > >>> }
> > >>>
> > >>> rc = sqlite3_exec(db, "ATTACH ':memory:' AS 'next'", 0, 0, 0);
> > >>> if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){
> > >>> fprintf(stderr, "sqlite3_exec: %s\n", sqlite3_errmsg(db));
> > >>> exit(1);
> > >>> }
> > >>>
> > >>> printf("main db is: %s\n", sqlite3_db_filename(db, "main"));
> > >>> printf("aux db is: %s\n", sqlite3_db_filename(db, "aux"));
> > >>> printf("next db is: %s\n", sqlite3_db_filename(db, "next"));
> > >>>
> > >>> return 0;
> > >>> }
> > >>>
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